• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      But from what I’ve seen even the service providers don’t seem to know how they’re doing it.

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        11 months ago

        It’s fairly easy to do so. They just simply disconnect it from their side. Either that or they use someckind of EMP but that would also affect their own equipment so I doubt that is they way they are doing it.

        And if it’s not obvious Israel will never comrfirm how.

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          11 months ago

          I guess? I honestly don’t know. I haven’t really seen reporting saying that either though.

          During the first blackout there was wide speculation that it was bombing, then some shock when Israel just turned service on when the US told them to. Almost nothing since (that I’ve seen), except to report when a blackout is occurring. I’ve been curious about it since then.

          I could be wrong but I suspect that it’d be in some explainer piece if they just had direct access to the infrastructure. I agree that sabotage with something like an EMP would be too imprecise. I’d speculate that they must have some backdoor into those systems.

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                  11 months ago

                  Do you think that Israel doesn’t have technology from the 70s? high gain directional antenna and a noise generator aren’t new high-tech super-technology.

                  the only reason we see distributed EW instead of massive stations is that a more advanced army could field weapons that could threaten these things.

                  here’s a link to the Wikipedia article for you:

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming

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                    11 months ago

                    I deploy radio networks and have worked in the middle east.

                    I am not going to explain to you why that is a worthless, bad and stupid idea.

                    I will however tell you that the Israelis know what is coming off those towers and are gathering intelligence. It’s better that they are active than not. Gaza’s network, however, has failed.